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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-lines-exemption-amendment-order-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1298",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-lines-exemption-amendment-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANT SHIPPING\nSAFETY\nMade 3rd June 1991\nLaid before Parliament 10th June 1991\nComing into force 1st July 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powersconferred by section 18(2) of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act1967 and now vested in him, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1298/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}